By Pat Culverhouse

An argument that began over a bad battery ended with a Minden man facing battery charges of an entirely different nature.

Minden Chief of Police Jared McIver said 26-year old A’Sean Lawendell Davis, a resident of the 600 block of Marion St., has been booked on two counts of domestic abuse/child endangerment as a result of the Sunday evening incident. He is being held in Bayou Dorcheat Correctional Center. No bond has been set.

McIver said officers responding to a 911 hangup call shortly after 7 p.m. Sunday found two children in the front yard of the Marion St. residence. Inside the residence, officers Dedrick Anderson Jr. and Lt. Brandon Curry were told the victim allegedly had been struck in the face by the suspect who had left the premises before officers arrived.

Officers reportedly learned during the interview that an argument over the victim’s inoperable car battery became physical when the suspect allegedly struck the woman in her head with a closed fist. The victim claimed the suspect also placed a hand on her throat during the altercation.

According to the officers’ report, both the victim’s children were interviewed separately and gave versions of the event which were similar to their mother’s.

This information has been provided by a law enforcement agency as public information. Persons named as suspects in a criminal investigation, or arrested and charged with a crime, have not been convicted of any criminal offense and are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.